How to win: Automating Income Tax Self Assessment Innovation Proof of Concept

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His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is the UK's tax, payments and customs authority, and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK's public services, and help families and individuals with targeted financial support. HMRC's Transformation Roadmap sets a clear vision for the future tax and customs system, which envisages greater automation, increasing intermediation and integrating tax with the processes and systems taxpayers use in their everyday lives. To support this ambition, HMRC is seeking to explore, develop and test ideas with industry on how the payments, banking and fintech ecosystems could enable a simpler, more automated and customer‑focused tax system. This will be delivered through co‑created, innovation‑led PoCs to safely test emerging data and fintech capabilities, enable rapid learning, and generate evidence to support informed horizon scanning and decision making. We are inviting suppliers to participate in a pre-market engagement exercise, to gather insights into a potential automating Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA) Innovation Proof of Concept (PoC). If pursued, this PoC will seek to test improvements in close to real-time cat

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — HM Revenue & Customs scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £291,667, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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